Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 467 The End of Yuanshi's Life
Theoretically speaking, Liang Yu's path to immortality in the mortal world is already complete. After all, he is still at his peak and has not aged, so he doesn't need to actively live another life like Ye Fan to adjust his condition.

The reason Liang Yu was certain that he had crossed the threshold of becoming a mortal immortal was mainly because he discovered that he could now actively control his transformation.

Of course, this kind of transformation is unlikely to improve one's own strength; it's just a simple refresh of one's own state.

The main reason why Ye Fan in later generations took the initiative to start his ninth life was because he was in his later years and wanted to adjust his condition to return to his peak.

For Liang Yu, who is at the peak of his career, there is naturally no need for him to undergo such a transformation to adjust his condition.

Liang Yu was actually quite satisfied with his progress. In his seventh incarnation, he thought he would reach this point in his later years or in the later part of his eighth incarnation, but he did not expect that he would truly break through the barrier between immortals and mortals in just the early part of this incarnation.

Of course, this can be seen from the fact that he already possessed the supreme immortal body of a half-step mortal immortal when he first reversed his birth into his eighth life.

Liang Yu felt a great weight lifted off his shoulders, for the blades of this Dharma-ending Age could no longer reach him. After becoming a Mortal Immortal, he could live forever, even in the more terrifying Age of Spirit Destruction.

But this is only the beginning, the beginning of the realm of immortals.

Knowing the existence of the pinnacle of immortality, Liang Yu naturally intends to further explore the limits of the Mortal Immortal realm, which will be his cultivation goal for the foreseeable future. The field technique is one of the key methods he uses to break through to this realm.

His own physical evolution, as well as his own Dao and Dharma, have reached a temporary limit, making it difficult to improve further. Even if there is improvement, it is difficult for him to undergo another qualitative change.

Unless he unlocks the sixth secret realm or creates his own system, Liang Yu will likely find it difficult to reach the pinnacle of immortality through normal cultivation.

Therefore, Liang Yucai set his sights on the field, which can be considered as taking a different approach.

Liang Yu had deliberately used the methods of the Earth Immortals to combine himself with their universe, wanting to deliberately make things more difficult for himself so that he could add the achievement of leaving the human universe during his final transformation, thus aiming to reach the pinnacle of immortality.

But after truly becoming a mortal immortal, Liang Yu found that his attempt was only slightly better than nothing. Unless he actively connected himself more deeply with the human universe and completely merged into it, getting rid of this state would not be very difficult for him.

If there's no difficulty, then naturally there's no bonus.

After this hope was dashed, Liang Yu's most practical approach at present is indeed the field method.

Of course, although the path of physical evolution has reached its end, he can still try again.

Of course, this involves combining the field—a new system different from his own. The transformation of Lingbao Tianzun was a hint to him, allowing him to continue to evolve on this basis, thereby researching a field method powerful enough to cause even immortals in the mortal world to undergo transformation.

As for the sixth secret realm and the self-created system, the sixth secret realm is worth trying to study, but the self-created system will probably have to be postponed.

Firstly, he needs to perfect the field to the point where it can be considered a system and learn from the experience gained; secondly, his own strength is not strong enough right now, so it would be too difficult to achieve this.

The sixth secret realm is even more difficult, requiring the creation of a new secret realm on top of an already perfect secret realm system. However, this is an essential path for those who become Immortal Kings through secret realm techniques.

For Liang Yu, who has already become a mortal immortal, this is his future path if he doesn't explore the pinnacle of immortality. Therefore, his research on this topic is not considered beyond his capabilities.

In any case, it would probably take the three most advanced cultivators—Yuanshi Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, and Lingbao Tianzun—tens of thousands of years to become Red Dust Immortals. It would be impossible to gather all three together, so Liang Yu could use this opportunity to push his cultivation even further. Moreover, if he entered a world like the Immortal Realm, which wasn't in the Dharma-ending Age, exploring the pinnacle of immortality would likely be even more difficult.

After determining his future direction in spiritual practice, Liang Yu ended his seclusion.

The Qiankun Creation Tower, which was intertwined with his life, naturally evolved the moment Liang Yu became a mortal immortal.

Although the other nine Immortal Golden Pagodas evolved because of their close connection with the Qiankun Creation Pagoda and because they were also personally forged by Liang Yu, their evolution was not as significant.

However, at this time, the Qiankun Creation Tower had not yet evolved to the level of a supreme immortal artifact.

In the original timeline, Ye Fan fused nine Immortal Golden Cauldrons into one, then integrated it into the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron, and only by combining the ten cauldrons into one could it be transformed into an unparalleled immortal artifact.

When it clashed with the Undying Heavenly Blade, which was forged by the Undying Emperor, who was also a mortal immortal, the Supreme Treasure Cauldron remained unscathed, while the Undying Heavenly Blade was chipped in the impact.

Although it's unknown whether the Undying Heavenly Blade has become a supreme immortal weapon, it's certain that the Red Dust Immortal's natal magic weapon is also quite different.

If Liang Yu were to combine the ten pagodas into one now, he could obtain a supreme immortal artifact, no weaker than Ye Fan's cauldron, and perhaps even stronger due to the influence of the domain.

However, that would be too wasteful.

Liang Yu first wanted to evolve the Qiankun Creation Tower into a supreme immortal artifact, then merge the nine immortal golden pagodas to become supreme immortal artifacts as well, and finally merge the two to create a supreme immortal artifact.

He had previously used various methods to refine these pagodas, precisely to prepare for this step, and naturally he could not give up halfway.

However, once Liang Yu truly entered the realm of the Mortal Immortal, he was able to further refine these ten pagodas.

Just after Liang Yu had re-refined all ten pagodas, he sensed the aura of the Primordial Celestial Venerable.

Like Lingbao Tianzun, Yuanshi Tianzun also released his aura and suppressed it as much as possible to ensure that Liang Yu was the only one in the human universe who could sense it.

From this aura, Liang Yu sensed that the Primordial Celestial Venerable's current life had finally come to an end.

In total, although Yuanshi Tianzun was the seventh incarnation, his lifespan was nearly 110,000 years, which was slightly longer than that of the eighth incarnation, Lingbao Tianzun. This is enough to prove Yuanshi Tianzun's extraordinary nature.

With a gentle tear, Liang Yu ripped open the void as if it were paper, creating a spatial rift that led directly to the Kunlun Sacred Realm. At that moment, the Primordial Celestial Venerable was standing outside the Kunlun Sacred Realm.

When Liang Yu opened the spatial rift, he saw the aged body of the Primordial Celestial Venerable and the aura of decline emanating from him.

Looking at Liang Yu on the other side of the spatial rift, Yuanshi Tianzun was slightly surprised, and then said, "Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Wuji."

(End of this chapter)